S.MG, March 2014 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
--
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.03.2014
Net change
31.03.2014
Cash
8`744.89091807
0
8`744.89091807
Tangibles
10.5676674
2.6419171
7.9257503
Intangibles and goodwill
43.60716142
2.6419171
46.24907852
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.03.2014
Net change
31.03.2014
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.000099385 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
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Category: S.MG
Sunday, 06 April, Year 6 d.Tr.
S.MG, June 2014 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
--
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.06.2014
Net change
30.06.2014
Cash
8`744.89091807
0
8`744.89091807
Tangibles
5.28383320
2.64191710
2.64191610
Intangibles and goodwill
48.89099562
2.64191710
51.53291172
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.06.2014
Net change
30.06.2014
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.000099385 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
Created dedicated Windows systems to allow in-house work on compiling.
Housing expanded in game (better transportation from map to indoors ; work on allowying player to build buildings).
« The Lovely Bones
MP's guide to boat travel from upon the very boat in question. »
Category: S.MG
Wednesday, 02 July, Year 6 d.Tr.
S.MG, January 2014 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
--
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.01.2014
Net change
31.01.2014
Cash
8`744.89091807
0
8`744.89091807
Tangibles
15.8515016
2.6419171
13.2095845
Intangibles and goodwill
38.32332722
2.6419171
40.96524432
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.01.2014
Net change
31.01.2014
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009947 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
A further package including crafting and skilling is expected sometime in February. Some details on irc.
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
« How many years you got ?
S.NSA, January 2014 Statement »
Category: S.MG
Sunday, 02 February, Year 6 d.Tr.
S.MG, February 2014 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
--
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.02.2014
Net change
28.02.2014
Cash
8`744.89091807
0
8`744.89091807
Tangibles
13.2095845
2.6419171
10.5676674
Intangibles and goodwill
40.96524432
2.6419171
43.60716142
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.02.2014
Net change
28.02.2014
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.000099385 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
The promised new package was delivered, it added crafting and lots of other goodies. Work continues.
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
« BitBet, February 2014 Statement
S.NSA, February 2014 Statement »
Category: S.MG
Tuesday, 04 March, Year 6 d.Tr.
S.MG, December 2013 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
--
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.12.2013
Net change
31.12.2013
Cash
8`744.89091807
0
8`744.89091807
Tangibles
18.4934187
2.6419171
15.8515016
Intangibles and goodwill
35.68141012
2.6419171
38.32332722
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.12.2013
Net change
31.12.2013
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009947 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
« The all-American asshole, in his own words, with my own notes
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Category: S.MG
Sunday, 05 January, Year 6 d.Tr.
S.MG, April 2014 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
--
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.03.2014
Net change
31.03.2014
Cash
8`744.89091807
0
8`744.89091807
Tangibles
10.56766740
2.64191710
7.92575030
Intangibles and goodwill
43.60716142
2.64191710
46.24907852
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.04.2014
Net change
30.04.2014
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.000099385 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
Apart from the long slog of bugfixing, compiling for different platforms, more bugfixing, various optimisation and generally a lot of work, the coding portion of S.MGs first MMORPG, Eulora, is by and large complete. With the exception of fighting mechanics, which are still being worked on, we deem the codebase to be more or less ready for beta, mostly more. The game is definitely playable as is, if not very rewarding yet. The game needs three major additions at this point, to reach its true potential :
The first being dedicated package maintainers, who are willing to commit to supporting Eulora downstream on various platforms. I am looking for people that are willing to do this, as part of one year renewable contracts, that will be remunerated. To participate, you will need :
A WoT account. Since I will be paying on completion, your WoT account does not have to be trusted to any degree, it merely has to exist, and consequently this is a great way to acquire WoT standing.
Very good familiarity with your chosen platform. You must be able to take the large bundle of C code that's the client and make it run on your chosen platform. You must be able to deal with complaints from users of that platform that are specific to that platform.i
Note that this isn't a "cool project" to jump into headlong. It requires commitment, and experience. You can ask any technical questions in #eulora, the lead dev as well as a bunch of very helpful people idle there. You can talk business to me directly in #bitcoin-assets. Each platform is to be supported through its own contract, let me know what you can do.
The second being art assets acquisition. This is an iffy problem, not only for the Bitcoin reason, but also because strategically speaking I intend to create a digital services marketplace, and would very much like to use the large and varied needs of Eulora acquisition to seed that platform. Which, unfortunately, is not yet done in any sense. Which puts me in the fucking worst position of all.ii
So on this score, I intend to delay.
The third being, of course, a lot of advertising. Not only for the problems described in BitBet's statement, but also because we're not NeoBee over here, this will wait. In point of fact, it will wait indefinitely : you can spend too much on advertising, and you can spend too soon on advertising. You can also spend too much too soon on advertising. What you can't do, no matter what happens, is you can't spend too little, nor can you spend too late. Such is the magnificent power of well designed assets run by competent people atop Bitcoin, and such is the reason why we will trample underfoot that entire other swamp posing as an "ecosystem".iii
Eulora aside, Minigame has a number of pots cooking, some of which are major game changers, some of which have some sort of semblance of a chance to ever come through, the two categories perhaps but not necessarily sharing any elements. Such is the way of business. See you next month, and next year, and after that.
———I have no problem with your telling people "install the latest driver", but if that doesn't work you must know what the solution is. [↩]Yes, I confess, I hadn't for a moment imagined that a half million C lines project can be done and ready to roll before a motherfucking website service was ready to come out of the box. If I wasn't doing five thousand other things I could have written that damned website, by hand, by myself, from scratch by now. Alas...
I guess the moral of this is, never underestimate chetty and her merry band of drunks. [↩]Simple economic theory : they have rent extracted from them, by an entire array of stupid women. We do not.
Whether those rents are extracted in the seemingly benign shape of "advertising expenses" so that "the people cattle we control say nice things of you" or in the much more pernicious shape of "pay for our couch potato-ing and call us great and important or else we will attempt to wreck your business", the point remains : the Silicon Valley zerg has rents extracted from it that we do not. And for this reason alone, even if we were as stupid as they are, as lazy as they are, as ineffectual as they are, we'd still win, because a sheep covered in ticks will die before a sheep without them. Even leaving aside that the contest includes two players of which exactly one sheep, the other player being Cthulhu, the eventual winner is not really all that hard to discern. [↩]
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S.NSA, April 2014 Statement »
Category: S.MG
Saturday, 03 May, Year 6 d.Tr.
SJW ? You mean SEW ?
In typical fashion of the socialist plague, the seemingly endless yet sadly worthless legions of boring, otherwise unemployable US "grad students"i populating the Socialist Media webspaceii call themselves something they pointedly aren't.iii
Their idea of social "justice" being social equality, and since there's nothing more fundamentally injust than equality in any societyiv, it'd be much healthier and much saner to just simply call them what they are : Social Equality Warriors. SEWs, for short.
So what if it looks like it came from sewage ? It kinda does. So what if it rhymes with Jews ? Gives the unwashed "right" aka old left a slight refresher of vocabulary, they'll now be able to go down the street chanting "We hate SEWs an' Jews!!!" - Yah God only knows they needed a refresher.
So that's that. SEWs it is.
———Hey, my cat is looking at a Pisciculture-Calisthenics postdoc programs. Don't judge. [↩]Social media ? No such thing. "Electronic Support Services for the Asocial", more like it. [↩]Great Leap Forward, anyone ? [↩]One of two things is definitely true of any shop where all the items go for the same price : either it's very bad business, or it's in the business of plying cheap plastic junk upon an unsuspecting public. [↩]
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Category: Gandesc, deci gandesc
Thursday, 30 October, Year 6 d.Tr.
Shots from a voyage
Not a bad story.
That piece of De Beers scamvertising is making the bold claim that one carat and over diamonds are so rare that less than 1% of women will ever own one. This is of course factually false, but the magazine in question (Architecture Digest, 1998 April edition) is replete with the sort of inanity. Audi advertises its then-recent A8 by stating that platinum plated sparkplugs give the engine its power, and that it's well worth it because why else would they put such a precious material somewhere nobody could see it. As if the miligrams of platinum in a spark plug are in any way related to engine power output or all that expensive.
Like any place worth its salt, this too has its very own cat.
Enemies of women, and other obsequious intermeddlers getting in the way of a good kneel.
Never have I seen a more vulgarly trite Monroe. Have you ?
Cheap plaster casts being passed as "statues", the "American" way.
Things handsome Romanians are good at. I had no idea I tell you.
The Liquid Acid Restaurant.
Less liquid, less acid.
That thing hanging from the candelabra is original spider web from before the revolution. One of.
Here's my attempt at trolling the electrical engineers among us.
« The woman's job.
O hai let me wanna-be! »
Category: La pas prin lume
Wednesday, 24 September, Year 6 d.Tr.
Sexing in the US
Her: So MP, here's one for you. Few days ago, huge topic on Reddit, "straight women, what could guys do in bed to make sex better". There was one overwhelming, somewhat shocking response pretty much all women mentioned. Hundreds of replies. Guess what ?
Me: Uh, give them a blowjob.
Her: You mean, eat them out?
Me: Yeah.
Her: No.
Me: Uhh... do the dishes.
Her: What, in bed?
Me: Ah it hasta be in bed...
Her: Yep.
Me: I dunno, bring a friend.
Her: Nope.
Me: Hm. Take their socks off. Wash.
Her: A few of those, but no.
Me: Jesus. Take Viagra.
Her: Nope.
Me: Stop asking a bunch of retarded questions.
Her: Nope.
Me: Shave.
Her: Nope.
Me: Use a condom.
Her: Nope.
Me: Okay, I'm spent.
Her: They should... make noise.
Me: Wut?
Her: Most common complaint, present in pretty much every single respondent's response. Gal's there working her butt off, can't tell if she's working a corpse or a very tight lipped Cistercian. So you know, they'd like to know if he likes whatever's going on to any degree, or what.
Me: *staggering* What a sad state of affairs.
~ * ~
Unrelated to the foregoing, imagine if the entire wetware computing thing takes off. But I mean in a big way : the CPU's organic, the monitor's organic, you gotta plug speaker-animals into the computer-animal in order for the image on the monitor-animal to match the sounds you hear...
What happens if one breaks down ? Why, you replace it, of course. You keep a bunch of them in culture, what's it cost, some HFCS and a little zinc powder or whatever ? Self-replicating computer technology, or "You wouldn't download an ethernet card, would you ?!?" "I would if I could bitch!"
Sort-of like sourdough, everyone'd keep their own variant and keep selecting it at home, people USians'd meet to exchange mousse recipes... One could have a monitor with hair growing on the back, perhaps a little beard around, tentacles, what have you. The webcam'd be a squishy eye reminescent of an octopus, or perhaps something multifaceted like a spider's, people could have contests with their homemade webcams much like they have robot contests today.
~ * ~
I imagine these two converge, on a finite timeline. The only remaining question being, where do you suppose the vagina goes ?
« Gai-Luron
The woman's job. »
Category: Gandesc, deci gandesc
Monday, 22 September, Year 6 d.Tr.
Sage
I have a sage bush in my garden. This year, for the very first time in its life, it has bloomed. It has bloomed splendidly, grandiosely, purpley :
For the entirety of the month of March, the nearby rosemary bush - which has been flowering in ever increasing abundance and growing wildly with a clearly visible plan of pushing the house over - was covered in bees, to the degree it emitted an audible hum at all times, like it were about to takeoff or something. And throughout the month of April, the sage bushlet, covered in these purple flowers, has been a bumblebee heaven. I've seen possibly ALL the bumblebees living within a thousand acres, including small yearlings and whatnot. They hum on a slightly different frequency than the bees, and in properly chosen spots between the bushes there's interference.
For some reason all this makes me happy.
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Category: Zsilnic
Wednesday, 07 May, Year 6 d.Tr.
Riverwalk. A proper one.
The famous Buenos Aires Clit Bridge. It's not across the river of silk silver as you may think, but simply across some body of water. Explicitly dedicated to women everywhere.
This is me casting my endless shadow over the seawalli and the... river. Honest, there's river in there!
Vedeti ba timisoreni fututi in cap cu ascensoru' cit si banda rulanta, asa arata o promenada de-aia unde sa pui casute dubioase sa haleasca pulimea carne fripta in conditii igienice precare. ASA. Pe malu' riului, sa traga briza putoarea. Afara din centru cit si din treaba oamenilor care nu-s peoni jegosi & sclavi care nu are de servici. Nu cum faceti voi, veni-v-ar damfurile de "capitala culturala" invers pe nas afara, ptiu. Auzi cultura.
Deci in spatiul asta intins cit vede ochiu' in zare si-nainte si-napoi, lat de minim treiji de metri incap la rigoare un milion de saormari obositi, sa se bitiie din treningu' de fis minca-ti-as cit si sa dea dintr-un slap in altu' de bucurie maxima ca uite, este hoit, pot pui si ei cit si este unsoare, sa se frece-n voie. Bine ? Bun ? Si nici nu deranjeaza pe nimeni, ba chiar astfel amplasati pot fi chiar simpatici.
Hai Romania!
This is the world's most elaborate game of hopscotch, going as you can see for over a mile's worth of cells (1600 meters to the mile) as well as over the wall and straight into the river. It's known as Suicide Hopscotch. Just like the Suicide Girls, only for younger females. And there definitely is a river in there. Honest!
Told ya.
I believe this is called waterfowl.
I ate one of those. What do you want from me, I was hungary.
First person to come up with the GPS coords of this thing gets a beer.
From a distance I imagined this is a reed harvester, to make paper (pretty much the best newspaper paper is made from reeds). From close up I'm however not so sure, might just be some dredge.
Cine cunoaste stie, in plm.
These are the holding cells on the grounds of the BDSM thematic park. During the summer months they stuff these full of girls, but at the moment it's too cold. I think.
A ruined fane.
The pony walking grounds attached.
S-a inteles si acolo in capul din fund ?
Un pom.
Alt pom.
O pasare, in acuarela.
O inserare.
This is a logo depicting a grown, bearded man giving oral pleasure to a child of indistinct gender. Some insurance company.
And that's all for today!
———Which is pretty solid concrete, about a meter thick, maybe four or so down to the water level and who knows what below that. It goes on for maybe three miles or so that I've personaly seen. [↩]
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Category: La pas prin lume
Wednesday, 09 July, Year 6 d.Tr.
Rime of the Ancient Marinere
Me bitbet.us/bitcoin-difficulty-over-5-6b-before-april
Sunday, 16 March, Year 6 d.Tr.
Revolver & RocknRolla
Originally I thought there's little sadder in the world of cinema than the later career of Al Pacino, replete with atrocities like S1m0ne, The Recruit or Ocean's Thirteen.
I was wrong, obviously. On one hand even a senile dog gets the occasional bone (People I Know) and moreover, we'll always have Paris as the expression goes - in the shape of innumerable earlier hits. One can easily forget the post-2000 crapola Pacino put out on the grounds that between Frankie and Johnny, Heat, Sea of Love, Carlito's Way etcetera etcetera etcetera his career was well complete before that.
Not so with Guy Ritchie. Not so at all. Here we have a dorky kidi with an accidental success in the style of Trainspottingii who then took that experience and produced a gem. Because Snatch is a gem, it kept and even empowered whatever was good in the earlier attempt, it removed or at least diminished whatever sucked. Still no Eros whatsoever, but then again what can you expect, twentysomething males are all virgins these days. At any rate it did seem like the man understands how to tell a story, and what a story is in the first place, and what filming means and is all about. I had great hopes for his future.
Instead, he choose to copy Tarantino's failureiii almost word-for-word. Animation in cinema, seriously ? Fuck you for even considering it.
So these two piles of shit... lordy where to even begin. There's no story whatsoever involved, nor any thinking expected or indeed allowed on the part of the viewer. Characters are introduced by lengthy expositions, then proceed to act exactly in contradiction to their supposed well established past. You have elderly real estate sharks that fall for the dopiest of scamsiv. You have crime bosses that spend their time nude in a roomsized UV solarium, trying to outsource their crimebossness. Seriously! Because that's how it works, you're going to hire some Mexican or whatever to shoot people for you, and then they're going to humbly take whatever bone you find adequate to throw them and exeunt so you can take the credit. Because this is corporate-style crimebossery nao (or moreover, because the virgin cocklets you're writing this crap for have no life experience outside of the roomsized UV solarium they call a cubical). You have the gracile accountant chick asking to be robbed and demanding a black eye. Because very many women that think nothing of having the delicate ossature of their own face smashed in become accountants. It's just what naturally attracts that type of woman. In Sarcasmia.
There really are no words to describe just how offensively stupid these things are other than to plainly state that they're about adequate for the intellectual powers and general abilities of monkeys born after 1990 or so. Because whatever you may think, no white woman has given birth to a human being in at least twenty years, it just isn't happening. They spit forth baboons, gorillas, chimps and all sorts of assorted reddit scum, but no people were born in the Western world this millenia, and at the rate it's going no people will ever be born in the Western world again.
It kinda sucks to not be able to as much as watch a film without being symphonically reminded of the universal and multilateral bankruptcy of your culture. Can we have a bloody war already, to help wash down this delicious burger ?
———Have you seen his picture ? [↩]Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is exactly the same story : worthless cocklets who think the world of themselves getting obscenely lucky. The construction's also the same, except Peter Mullan's straight older male turns into Sting's equally bland straight older male, women and generally the erotic sentiment is equally absent and in general you'll be hard pressed to find any difference at all. Try. [↩]Yeah, they were butt buddies. It shows, and to neither's benefit. [↩]Teh stolen gift. Seriously. [↩]
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Saturday, 18 January, Year 6 d.Tr.
Ransomware
That's a "report" on some random ransom sitei. Am I now expected to what exactly, point out to the admin that BitBet doesn't even offer BlackJack, or that it doesn't even have accounts at all ? That their clearly overworked dollar-a-day outsourced workers just go through the motions, found what they identified as "a gambling site" and complain about what they expect a gambling site to beii, in the process thoroughly giving the lie to the theory that "these are just user-contributed, you know, UGCiii" ? And then perhaps pay him his ten bucks or whatever other Bitcents his entire existence spins on ?
Or perhaps have my lawyer draft a C&D for the ISP hosting him and end the whole charade in one fell swoop, albeit a little more expensive ?
And what if I do, either ?
There's no end to the idiots. There isn't going to ever be an end to the idiots : their mother is perpetually pregnant. So instead of hewing and hawing on "how to fix" the "problem" and similar bullshit, let me rehash an older point :
princessnell: so MP are u sad that u can't attend any awesome btc conferences now that andreas' army is flexing their harrassment policy against yr triggering statements??
davout: some of my homophobes are friends best
mircea_popescu: princessnell, no because if i went to such a thing i'd get a set of bodyguards anyway. because you see, irrespective of what the crowd of nobody thinks, rich people sitll can't simply leave the door open relying on some sort of universal humanity. and so since i'm paying for security detail anyway, might as well put this to use : let them do the same if they want to talk to me on equal terms.iv sensible n'est pas.
princessnell: good bc those are some tuff dudes
davout: s/n'est pas/n'est-ce pas/
mircea_popescu: mine works too omg hateur
davout: yes, if you're a drunk master yoda. sensible, cela n'est pas
That's exactly right : there's nothing wrong with raping, pillaging or killing poor people.v Not because they would do the same to you, but because they do, they actually already do the same to you.vi
So... let the carnage begin. Why solve ecology problems at the wrong end ? Just butcher the mob. Nobody said we're all equally people. We aren't. We'll never be. Do something useful, do something pleasant or do your final prayers. It's only natural, after all.
———Full screenshot, if you're looking to delight yourself into the beauty that is modern web "desigining". Or to quote Mark Tarver,
An immediate casualty were some hard-core traditional CS modules like complexity and compiler design. Why, argued students, elect to study some damned hard subject like compiler design, when you could study something cool like web design and get better marks? So these old hard core subjects began to drop off. Even worse, the School (following the logic of the market), having seen that these hard core subjects were not attracting a following, simply dropped them from the curriculum. So future students who were bright enough to study these areas would never get the chance to do so.
After a few years of this system, the results percolated through to my office. I could see the results in the lecture hall, but the procession of students who walked into my office and said "Dr Tarver, I need to do a final year project but I can't do any programming"...
Those people. They also want to be fed, somehow. They shouldn't be fed, of course, but what's should do for a hungry, lazy idiot ? [↩]It's a site, so it must have accounts, right ? MP is not an innovator, reddit is where thinking happens etc. Right ? [↩]User-generated content, the biggest myth on the webs, but also the practical, historical equivalent of "crowdsourced".
You see, ten years ago or so, during the dotcom bubble, bright young men that hadn't gone though the compiler and complexity modules of their CS programme (through no fault of their own, of course) innovated all sorts of stupid shit they thought was smart (for lack of any ability to distinguish between the two, which also explains why they thought they should be white collar workers in the first place), which strictly consisted of creating packaging. When asked "so who's going to you know, do all the hard, useful, difficult, complicated work based on taste and experience and wisdom that's required to fill your packaging ?" they just waved their hands and muttered "user generated content". Because you see there's a whole web out there, which consists of millions upon untold billions of free ranged chickens, which have no greater hope or aspiration in life than to be put into a harness, be given a yoke, and start pulling the cart of some young, dumbass "entrepreneur" (in his own opinion), that through no fault of his own hadn't actually gone to school any (he went to a building that was right next to the school building, it counts, right ?).
This didn't work. You know, just like global warming didn't work. Just like colored didn't work. Just like handicapped didn't work. Just like mentally retarded didn't work. So, just like "global warming" became "climate change" and then "anthropogenetic-i-fucked-your-mother-on-a-stick", just like colored became african american, just like mentally retarded became congressman and handicapped became civil servant, just so "user generated content" became "crowdsourced". [↩]Speaking of which, time to do away with the ridiculous theory that a lord's guards are somehow inferior to the police. A policeman should know better than to get involved with the armed retinue of a lord, and if he doesn't he should be taught, in the manner the mob is ever taught : through shooting him, and anyone else that has a problem with this.
Maybe at some point in the past it was the case for all of five minutes that the democratic police could be relied on to protect, and so it made sense for the lords to not use armed retinues, nor to enforce their superiority over the popular guards. But that time's long gone, if indeed it ever existed. [↩]There is something wrong with trying it on rich people : they'll probably strike back. [↩]Take progressive tax as a fine example. It's not that "some" are "trying". All are trying, and some are occasionally succeeding.
And before we revisit that tired old strawman about how "not all poor people are evil, and so the killing of poor people is not morally justified per se" : they may not all be evil, but I don't kill poor people all the time either. They're not all evil, and I don't spend my entire day in the poor people abattoir. So we're even then : I kill them sometimes, they're evil sometimes. Exact match. [↩]
« Unii sunt putin luati, da' altii saracii sunt luati rau de tot, mai frate.
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Category: Bitcoin
Monday, 23 June, Year 6 d.Tr.
Random weird shit
This was affixed to someone's scooter. Here's a detail :
It's something to do with plumbing ass, right ? Signed by The Cat, right ?
Which is fortunate, because here's somebody's balcony :
It's always a little scary to go out on someone else's balcony for you never know what you may find, right ? Well... five fishes. Beat that.
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Thursday, 17 July, Year 6 d.Tr.
Random lulz of the day. Pass on by, you won't be missing out on anything.
01 my kids were arguing while i was trying to cook dinner, dinner got burned, i tossed it in the sink and left them to their peanut butter sandwiches and kitchen duty and locked myself in the bathroom for a few minutes
09 sounds like a far trade off 01
01 i lost my temper...i hate it when i do that
09 at least you stepped away from everything
02 sound like you are stressed 01
02 stressed
01 a little bit, yes
03 it probably helps you to see someone professionally, 01
02 iit happens
01 it surprised them, that's for sure....they are eating their peanut butter sandwiches without making a peep
03 that creates fear and damage in them
03 and there are things kids remember forever
04 lol hiya 05
01 they need to fear...and they are far from damaged...
03 no, children do not need to fear
ME 03 and you know this how.
01 i did pretty much that 07 but i didn't spank them....made them wish i had though
03 really, ME ?
ME yes. really.
05 That was supposed to be bangs on your cage 04
09 07 is a 07 ...
03 maybe you should look it up then
04 oooh okay
ME look it up ? what's that, like, seek confirmative bias from other dudes that similarly never considered the point ?
06 hiya 07
03 then don't look it up and rely on tribalism intead
01 tell you what 03, you raise your kids your way and i will raise mine my way. there's no need for us there's no need for us to disagree since we don't share children in common
03 no, that won't do, either
ME 03 so far, you're the one proposing that kids should only eat half the pie of life "because reasons".
ME that'd be tribalism.
ME what, you saw a burning bush that told you so ?
03 I haven't proposed anything
ME 03 no, children do not need to fear
Sunday, 28 December, Year 6 d.Tr.
Qntra (S.QNTR) October 2014 Statement
Qntra has realised no income and made no expenditure this periodi. Qntra is expected to realise no income and make no expenditure the following period.
As directed by its charter and on the basis of the report of the editor in chief, 80`704 S.QNTR shares issued this period. This brings the total shares issued to 80`704.
As reported by Quantcast, Qntra has been seen by 959 US / 1.9K Global viewers this period, serving a predominantly male, young, rich, well educated, politically active and independent demographic. So far so good, see you next month!
———The followers of #b-a logs probably recall Qntra was being DDOS'd the entire month. Mitigation obviously costs money, so does hosting, and so on. Once Qntra realises an income these may actually figure in the expense line, but not before. [↩]
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Monday, 03 November, Year 6 d.Tr.
Qntra (S.QNTR) November 2014 Statement
Qntra has realised no income and made no expenditure this periodi. Qntra is expected to realise no income and make no expenditure the following period.
As directed by its charter and on the basis of the report of the editor in chief, 29`082 S.QNTR shares issued this period. This brings the total shares issued to 109`786.
As reported by Quantcast, Qntra has been seen by 5.0K US / 9.5K Global viewers this periodii, serving a predominantly male, young, rich, well educated, politically active and independent demographiciii.
I must say I am very pleased with the continued evolution of this property, and am confident that should the current team continue pouring their soul into it on the short term, success is in reach.
———An 11 day advertising spot yielded 93 clicks of which 86 were unique, but as the deal was CPA based this has yielded zero income for Qntra. It has been decided in an ad-hoc board meeting to discontinue the ad in question, and use a more traditional paradigm in the future if at all.
The relative merits or dismerits of the advertiser's marketing team aside, given the overal audience and reach figures reported by Quantcast this short lived experiment indicates extreme engagement on the part of the readership, to a degree not seen on the Internet in two decades. [↩]Up 521.37% / 500% from last month. Not only is Qntra growing at an outrageous pace, it is also growing faster in the US market than globally. [↩]Like so :
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Monday, 01 December, Year 6 d.Tr.
Pushing the soft tender flesh of a friend against the sharp rotating blades of the immutable machine.
You know I'm just the guy to do it, so here goes :
asciilifeform Still boggling mind at the newest pgp hatchet jobi. Why the idiocy? or rather, why was it not cushioned in perfectly logical criticism of the spec (cruftyii; mandates support for hideously weak algos; etc) ? Almost enough to believe that the author is secretly on the side of the forces of good - i.e. he isn't genuinely trying to fool anyone. Like the mythical einsatzgruppen kommando loading blank shells.
mircea_popescu Because they can't afford to pay smart people enough.iii
asciilifeform Can't afford - or won't prioritize ?
mircea_popescu Can.Not.Afford.
* asciilifeform favours crackpot theory: the seekrit skvirels prefer to enlist 'pure blood Aryans' and this is a painful constraint for them.iv
BingoBoingo Lol.
mircea_popescu That's provably false : if they did, you'd know what the definition of Aryan is.v
asciilifeform Definition of Aryan
Monday, 18 August, Year 6 d.Tr.
Pseudo-racism, faux sexism : the socialist verbal menagerie
Me Check out this retarded shit! "She's poor, stupid and loud." "No, you're a horrible person." This is what the anti-discrimination bullshit is aimed at, IMO. It has jack shit to do with the legitimate interests of black people, or with the legitimate interests of gay people, or with anything legitimate at all. It's just marauding socialism : you must not discriminate, ie, distinguish. Because then and only then may socialism flourish. This is why completely unrelated idiocy such as not giving kids failing marks, and not allowing winners in school sporting events and so forth fold so easily into the libertard mainstream : it's not about niggers or faggots in any sense. It's all about how the words "nigger" or "faggot" could be used to promote this non-discrimination agenda. That's the only way one could explain people being anti smoking AND anti fur AND anti schoolyard bullies AND anti beating misbehaving children AND anti death penalty AND anti racial segregation AND pro "gay marriage" AND anti religion but pro political correctness and so on and so forth. The set is self contradictory on pretty much all scores with the exception of only one unifying thread : this fight discrimination thing. They even say so, actually, if ever pressed to construct some sort of general point of view your contemporary US libertard will come up with this, "fight discrimination". Over a cup of fresh mucus and a small serving of gravel steak.
Her I think you're right, but I'm not sure the source is the best exemplary of what you're talking about. The woman who wrote seeking advice IS a horrible person, but that's not because she's excluding someone, it's because she won't come out at say why plainly. She tries to muffle it with the same bs, "she's divorced and has a young child" "we go to church", supposed to stand for "I think she's a slutty heretic". The woman actually writing the column would've give better advice if she'd just said discriminate who you want, but tell them why. I guess actually this just supports what you said, maybe it's a good example after all. Yeah. Fight discrimination, because we can't actually look at ourselves and discern, nor accept, meaningful difference. It's pretty sad in retrospect that the woman wants advice for this, yet the only thing she'll ever get (unless she wisens and starts asking the right, ie, non-socialist people) is either confused camaraderie that can't define the actual problem or else "you're a horrible person" equally confusedly explained.
Me But not coming out to say it plainly doesn't make her horrible.
Her Why not?
Me It just makes her polite.
Her Polite? Is the quality of politeness saying things so as to avoid offending others, to the point of obscuring what you mean?
Me Yep, quote exactly. Not quite on par with being a horrible person.
Her Seems pretty horrible to me. Isn't this essentially what people do when they profess to "be nice"?
Me I mean, if you tell a twelve year old she's pretty to try and lure her in your pedovan you're a horrible person. If you tell a twelve year old she's pretty when she's ugly you're just polite.
Her So wait. What's the difference? The second supposedly doesn't "intend" to be harmful?
Me Scale goes something like horrible > polite > filthy whore > clean whore > asshole.
Her Ahaha
Me 0 being, I guess, clean whore.
Her Alright, that seems reasonable a scale. I'm pretty sure most people'd have to have the position of "polite" there explained tho'. 'Cause the normal idea is prolly more like "horrible > filthy whore > clean whore > mean > slut/asshole > decent > nice".
Me Mean's undefined anyway.i Wait wait. Scale actually goes something like horrible > polite > filthy whore > clean whore > slut/asshole. Both sluts and assholes being people who say what they mean, with no further qualifications. Isn't it weird that the socialist bunch, while CLAIMING to be against discrimination by gender, actually does exactly that ? There's a slut / asshole distinction predicated on exactly nothing other than the person's gender.
Her I guess so. And yeah it's weird, but it's consistent; people who don't want to look at what things actually mean wouldn't stop to consider the gender difference in slut/asshole, or perceive that a man could be a slut, etc. It's not in the collected mental notebook of "things people who don't make our stomach upset say".
Me So excused by ignorance ? Funny how that works.
Her Not excused. Explained.
Me A right you are.
Her They're all assholes... I mean, polites. Hm I'll have to get used to that.
Me Polites lol. Yeah.
Illustration via Brad Cooper.
———I invite you to define it. What does it mean, this "mean" ? And be warned, I do not fuck around, I have read a lot, I know what I ask of your "devil". And why. [↩]
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Tuesday, 13 May, Year 6 d.Tr.